Remember the road to and from DC was littered with the bodies of pundits who called Little Boots a “dick.”

And the Liberal bastards did it EVERYTIME they mentioned Cheney’s name. How unnecessary was that, huh?

What?
Really?
Never happened? Oh well. Never mind…

ANd I don’t think any of this was accidental, btw.

It wasn’t an “Ooops!”
He asked if they had the 7-second delay, and then Halpering said it with a smile on his face. Unless they turned the camera’s away from him, and bleeped out the entire line, it was going to be pretty obvious to people who can read the lips of a person saying a one syllable word, or figure out what the “___________” word was. He could have saved that gem for Schmoe and Mika at a commercial break if he wanted to.

And now, thanks to Halperin, the MSM has its new talking point – that Obama is the one acting like a dick, not the Republicans.

He can apologize all he wants, but his is, a ‘mission accomplished.’ I’m sure he earned a ton of ‘street cred’ within the Conservative world. And that suspension will, in the end, cost him nothing.

This morning is another example of the political press corps behaving like junior high schoolers. Joe’s buddies giggled that Mark said a dirty word. Then Harold Ford, who plays a liberal on TV, protected his 7 figure salary by defending Halperin. I don’t want Halperin suspended or fired. He’s been a Republican/Right Wing hack as long as I can remember. His mistake this morning was to settle the question once and for all.

A good point. This morning should help solidify Halperin’s place in the carnival freak show that is cableland politics. Time Inc. might prefer more sober types to interpret every political development as bad new for the Ds. I expect Howie Kurtz to spend the entire hour this Sunday having a jury of his peers decry the Left’s vicious on that fine fellow, Mark Halperin.

While I am a charter member of the “fuck this mindless civility” club, if the president calling for Halperin and his overfed, pampered elite buddies to share in the “shared sacrifice” they keep trying to impose on the plebes is being a dick, I can only say, “Bring on more dickishness, please!”

This has nothing to do with any question of lese-majeste. The suspension simply shows that even in our degraded political discourse, an alleged “political journalist” still can’t characterize the president with a childish body part vulgarism on national television. Would Halperin have got away with it if it had been Trump? Possibly. Possibly not. Glad he didn’t, though.